ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Book-worm

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Book-worm is a noun meaning Alternative form of bookworm.

Meaning

Alternative form of bookworm.

Example Sentences

Padre. "I have never been much of a book-worm, but it appears to me if man, as Dr. Baāhar says, represents vice and woman virtue, your college learning directly tends to the cultivation of a vicious course by keeping before the people the barbarous acts of the ancients derived from their own language, which gives the scholar a directing power, from a studied understanding of the corruptions practiced in past ages."

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include leaf-worm, bookbook, whealworm, bokbook, cabbageworm, lob worm.

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